| Grant number: | 19/16948-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| Start date: | November 01, 2019 |
| End date: | May 19, 2023 |
| Field of knowledge: | Engineering - Production Engineering - Product Engineering |
| Principal Investigator: | Mario Sergio Salerno |
| Grantee: | Ana Paula Franco Paes Leme Barbosa |
| Host Institution: | Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Associated research grant: | 15/26662-5 - Uncertainty management in innovation activities, AP.TEM |
Abstract The project analyzes the Innovation Function, an organizational function (such as Marketing, R & D, Production) that has been introduced in large companies that are regularly seeking more radical innovation. The Innovation Function (FI) is responsible for nurturing and developing a portfolio of radical innovation projects, characterized by being surrounded by significant uncertainties, aimed at creating new growth platforms for the company, based on more radical innovations. These projects are few compared to the range of innovation projects in the company - for example, 10 in 500 - 800. Given the uncertainties, it is not possible to plan at the beginning what the project will be, what activities will be needed, what resources, nor when they will be sued. Thus, it does not make sense to immobilize resources in the FI; it makes more sense to use resources already existing in the company, and to hire resources that are punctually necessary for given activities. That is, FI borrows resources from other organizational functions of the company.Thus, the project aims to develop knowledge about how the Innovation Role mobilizes internal resources for radical innovation projects. Starting from the idea that FI orchestrates internal resources through a loan process, the project discusses how the dynamics of such loans in Intra-organizational networks is given, which is not addressed in the literature. Initially, it analyzes the structure of the function, then discusses the mechanisms for the function to obtain resources borrowed from other functions, and the conditions for such mechanisms to be effective. The dynamics of "borrowing" are discussed from the framework proposed by Zarifian of communicational events and actions (with their normative, cognitive and expressive registers) and would have of networks applied to innovation, from longitudinal case studies. In this way, we seek to contribute to theory and practice by elucidating the network orchestration roles of the Innovation Function, which helps elucidate how a network function works and articulates (a new theoretical category that has been proposed in the thematic project). | |
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